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I'll ask the obvious question: isn't one of the main challenges of an ice maker getting the water to freeze? How does this happen in the refrigerator compartmen

• bombcar 3y ago
  You can have the "cold maker" part in the fridge above the ice maker, and blow freezing air across the water into the freezer. Not saying it's done that way, but many fridges now keep the fridge part cold by venting freezer air into the fridge (if set wrong, you can freeze things in the right part of the fridge). I am probably going to lean toward separate freezer and fridge next time.
• bluGill 3y ago
  While one might have existed, I've never seen a fridge that has cools for the fridge and freezer size. They all have one set of coils between the compartment and then some sort of baffle to control how much cold goes to each section. It is a small engineering problem have another baffle blowing cold are to the ice maker.
• legitster 3y ago
  Ours has a little insulated compartment for making the ice. But most of the mechanics/circuitry/piping are outside of the compartment in the back of the fridge. The ice maker compartment alone is responsible for a significant amount of cooling in the rest of the fridge, and it's very uneven as a result, but it works okay. While the maker itself is super happy in these conditions, you will get problems if you do not regularly use ice. If you let the ice pile up it ironically is too good of an insulator and causes the stuff on the bottom to melt and refreeze. So you need to run that auger once in a while and make sure it doesn't dam up in there.